St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 19, 1923

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pel Se ee : 7.7 ee. aa te, Se Belial hes “utd naan tata Se. ae BUT 1 RE on Cany OUT AND PLAY. FE - \TS YOUR & HE NEIGHBORHOOD STORES Are Making Thetr Weekly Offers Today See Page 28. JT. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH _ The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. NO 42. , UHARGES BUREA pone : EY DERG, WL ROBBER Fs. Wo bes Gangster Was shot I An Affray at Roadhouse Bi a Halfway, Ill, Yester- a day. : -_--- So —_——— >i, Ste ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1923—36 PAGES. $15000,000 SUT ‘BREAK BETWEEN FRANCE AND BRITAIN TRG AIOMAPED VETERAN! AGAINST GROUPOF §=»-sA VONDED BY. A > COUNCIL 4 a FROM AN ASYLUM. BARKERS ON TRL ~~ ssi tai. - Congressman Says Federal |Clergyman Foreman of Jury Femeecsem te sn Officials Acted in Face of Called Upon to Decide an PRINCIPLE” ON GANGSTER WHO WAS SHOT TO DEATH Restraining Order Issued|* Unusually Complicated Fi- by State Courts. nancial Snarl. | OF RESORT ALSO IS WOUNDED FORMER COUNTRY BOY | THE CENTRAL FIGURE | TAKEN TO HOSPITAL IN PENNSYLVANIA Representative Johnson As-' Head of Plants Manufactur- serts Director Hines Asked| ing Felt and Felt Slippers | Him to Present Facts in| Alleges He Was Victim of the Case Conspiracy. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—A charge that the Veterans’ Bureau kdinaped Charles Kasavage, a world war veteran, from an insane asyrum in the State of Washington and took him to a hospital in Pernsylvania was made today before the Senate Veterans’ Committee by Representa- tive Johnson, Republican, Washing- ton. Representative Johnson said offi- cials of the bureau acted in violation of a restraining order issued by the State courts and that he had been ‘asked by Director Frank T. Hines property worth $10,000,000 of the bureau to present the facts/ George F. Willett, self-made manu- so that the “wrong done in this case facturer. can be righted.” T ' A protest was made by Johnson | he clergyman is foreman of a against testimony given before the | JUTY now hearing testimony in Wil- | WILLIAM F.. (WHITEY) DOERING FAKE FINE PAID TO BE CHARGED ON STATE EXPENSE ACCOUNT Brockman Assured by Highway Worker Relief Will Be Found From Alleged $14.65 Pay- ment to Policeman. Protests of an employe of the State Highway Department that he nad been arrested wrongfully on a charge of violating automobile park- ing regulations and had paid $14.65 to a policeman for his fine, went for By @ Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch and New York World: DEDHAM, Mass., Nov. 19.—In the | Superior Court at this little indus-| trial suburb of Boston, Sherman L. | Whipple, Néw England's trial lawyer, is striving to prove to a , Special to the Poet-Dispatch. MARION, Ill, Nov. 19.—Death ghis afternoon ended the appeal of “William F. (Whitey) Doering, mem- | ber o fthe notorious Egan gang of of St. Louis, who was sen- wenced recently to 30 years’ impris- ¥ enment for participation in the dar- _ ng downtown holdup of an armored | wail tfrucy at St. Louis, April 2. He | had been at liberty on a $90,000 ap- bond. ‘g Phen night he was shot in the ab- ' gomen in an affray at a roadhouse at Halfway, halfway between here ‘and Johnson City. Before his death ai 2:30 p. m., at the Herrin Hospital, he refused to make any statement. He was identified by Sheriff Galligan o Williamson County. He was en- tered on the hospital records as W. _ ¥. Doering. * Roadhouse Man Wounded. | Charles Birger, proprietor of the 4 soadhouse at Halfway, who was seri- ‘ously Wounded by a bullet that en- ’ gered his left side, under the heart, and passed out under his right arn- | pit, and who declares that Doering shot him in an attempted “holdup,” itin the hospital. Binger, too, iden- ’ tified Doering as the St. Louls Egan — . He asserts that one of | companions of Doering shot shoot him. { Bir- dU JUST FOLLOW DOWN TO THE E STATION-( foremost | clergyman, a shoeworker, a painter. a carpenter, a railroad worker. a | printer, a machinist, a mason and /| four clerks that a group of nation- | ally known bankers conspired to take from | By the Associated Press, PARIS, Nov. 19.—An agreement in principle wag reached by the repre- sentatives of the allies asembied ja the Council of Ambassadors here cay and a break between France ar Great Britain on the question of the attitude to be adopted toward many was averted, at least tempo- rarily. it was annouficed after the = ferehce that the Ambassadors agreed in principle on. Bros Toes to be taken toward the of allied militury contro ‘in Germee ny. The agreement the snonieal at art of the gian Cabinets at meetings ‘anet on for naught when the complainant was) unable Saturday night to identify the police station to which he was taken, or point out the arresting officer. "Some Yecourse appeared available, however. Philip Brockman, Prvsi- dent of the Board of Police Commis- gioners, who made an investigation, today said the State employe assured him the amount would be charged off on an, expense account. Complaint was made by Clarence C. Branaman, residing on Rural Route No. 10, Jefferson Barracks. He said a policeman arrested him at Third and Olive streets, which is in the..Centreil District, on a parking charge. When they reached the front committee on Nov. 5 by Dr. D. O.| lets sult against the bankers for | Girls dropping flowers at base of monument in ‘Twelfth boulevard in ceremony today. Smith, one of the investigators for | | $15,000, 000 damages. Complicated | == —— ee committee counsel, and also against | preliminaries haygeeen fought out) “the manufacturing of testimony” jin the last week/ with the suave and POST DAR BR NGS $30 DOCTOR f NERS BREAK DIRGES PLAYED Ay affecting the status of the soldier in | tery of distinguished corporation la a court at Wilkesbarre, Pa. | yers, laying the foundation work for | (4 T Wife Named Guardian. his case. He is pow ready to start | | Denying that Mrs. Kasavage had | on the first floor of that elyeren 2 | | for her husband in the State of | topple from the shots of sdcieane | Washington, Representative Johnson | counsel or teH an amazing story of | ; Sree Ss. declared the apointment had been | financial piracy. 11\“I’m Going Insanet’’ He Cries|Structure in Twelfth Boulevard) made by the State court on the rec- | Central Figure in Case. apparently to be used later in a suit) courteous Whipple, opposed by a Tt is understood here that two eee were arrested at Herrin on sus- ition after the shooting, and are being -held there, but have refused | to talk. One of these men is under — $2000 bonds on a charge of highway Associate Is in Penitentiary. David Weisman, an associate of | | Doering and former St. Louisan, who ‘ Was a shoe dealer at Johnson | Was convicted with Doering of tion in the St. Louis mail | and has been sent to the (Ga.) Federal penitentiary a 25-year sentence. Post- authorities discovered in their uf on of the robbery § that ’ | #me of the stolen securities were Bi. oe lkgg this vicinity of South- a “The loot in the St. Louis robbery mas £267, 174 in cash and negotiable bonds, and $2,139,900 in - Unsigned Federal Land Bank bonds "=e Could have been made negoti- ' Only by forgery of signatures. occurred at Fourth and “streets. The Federal Land ey bonds and part of the cash and | bonds were recovered in a 2 Doering’s home, in Rich- et. St. Louis TeCovered. . mn City is about 10 miles : ef Marion, with Halfway on . route, and Herrin is about eight West of Johnson City. Le. UXOR, Egypt, Nov. 19.—Work | the tomb of Tutankhamen was today. The final prepara- Wing been completed, How- 4 Carter, head of the expedition the death of the Earl of Car- removed the outer wood- k and Opened the iron gate per- entry into the passage lead- antechamber, which last ywee cleared of jts royal treas- | - County, | The remainder, $131,856 | 2and industria] bonds, has not | of a police station, the policeman is alleged to have stated the fine would be $14.65, and this amount to have been paid to the officer, save time. is «aid to No record of the arrest or fine had been found, and Brknaman was un- able to identify either the Central or Fourth District stations, nor the ar- resting officer from men on duty the two districts, Brockman said Branaman is working on a road co- struction job on Lemay Ferry road. TYPHOON SWEEPS PHILIPPINES, MANILA PARTLY UNDER WATER Sixteen Inches of Rain Fall in 48 Hours—Ships Held in Por, Be- cause of Storm. By the Associated Press. MANILA, Nov. 19.—A from the Pacific Ocean has swept over Luzon and Visayas islands. Rail and telegraph communications have been entirely suspended. Manila is part under water as a result of the torrential downpour, ats replacing motor cars in sev- era] streets. The storm also caused considerable damage to crops. The rainfall in the last 48 hours totaled more than 16 inches. Telegraph wires were typhoon washed out in many parts of the island. A number of ‘ships which were scheduled to sail were kept in port here by the storm. r FAIR TONIGHT AND FAIR AND WARMER TOMORROW THE . ow lary “aeen ee to25™15— STD t--) B-IDSS wo PP eererers ighest temperature yesterday, 63, Dp. m.; lowest, 44, at 7 a. m. _ I at ae Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity — Clear tonight and Tuesday: warmer Tue>-- day. Missouri — Clear tonignt and Tuesday. Warmer Tues- day and tn northeast and northwest p or- tions tonight. Illinois — Fair tonight and probably warm- er Tueedayv and in northweet portion tonight. Sun rises at 6:49, sets at 4:44. Stage of Missiasippi River at St. Louis, 5.6 feet at 7 a. m., a fall of 1. Missouri at St. sero 13.5, a fall of .1. i*) | has testified are coming torn down | by the wind and rain and roads were | ‘for employes emmen@ation of the Veterans’ Bu- | reau. He also denied charges that Mrs. Kasavage had lent her husband only $5 spending money in two years | and a half out of a total of $157.50 | a month received by her from the; bureau as his guardian. “This woman,” he said, “has lived in pain and misery and destitution to help this soldier.”’ Before the committee began its inquiry into the operations of the several] divisions of the bureau _ it heard further references to charges against former Director Charles R. Forbes. His counsel, James E. Eas- | by-Smith, expressed regret that the committee had so limited his time | that it was impossible for him ‘to | 'prseent a full and adequate defénse | of Forbes” and requested that he be | permitted to present later a memo- | randum of what he had hoped to | prove by witnesses and the list of the witnesses that he would call. O’Ryan’s Statement. John F. O'’Ryan, general counsel for the committee, replied that he had tried to keep Forbes’ name out of the investigation, but that he was | “forced to bring him into it,” by the | evidence which investigators had | gathered, “Additional testimony concerning matters to which Elias H. Mortimer | in every day,’ O’Ryan said, “and just how far the committee desires to go into it remains for the committee to de- cide.”’ Through Charles L. Mulhearn, as- sistant director in chlarge of the claims division, O’Ryan developed that the civil service requirements of the bureau who make contact with the veterans is the lowest for any bureau employe, although the witness said he knew of no individual cases of incompetency. OBJECTED TO REMINDER OF LOSS Woman, Whose Son Was Kill«d, Opposed to Soudiers’ Monument. By the Associated Press. PARIS, Nov. 19.—The authorities at the village of Burey, near Paris, now are proceeding with construc- tion of a soldiers’ monument after evercoming a woman's opposition. As fast as the foundation for the monument was dug it was filled in during the night by mysterious hands. The culprit was found to be a woman named Morineau, who, liv- ing opposite to the site, said that as her son had been killed in the war, she “could not bear the thought of having such a constant reminder of her loss.” She was fined twice but as ber of- fense continued she was locked up. Two Million Trillion More Marks. By the Associated Press. BERLIN. Nov. 198.—Germany's money presses contributed two mil- lion trillion marks to the nation's currency for the week ended Oct. 31, ax shown by the Bank of Germany's statement today. The amount is expressed by 19 digits—2,000,000,- 000,000,000.000—a week's produc- tion for the first time reaching the (by Gen. ‘work in Washington. short periods, including $100,000 to the Girard National Bank of Phil- adelphia and $400,000 to the Chase shares, or a controlling interest of the stock. Fessenden arrange a agent for him for 10 years or more. he explains, had his confidence and owed him a fiduciary duty. The central figure in the case is Willett, who, as a lad fresh from the country, started his buriness career in the offices of a Boston leather concern. At the crest of that career | he had built up two sturdy plants manufacturing felt and felt slippers, | and a dozen subsidiary corporations, bad become a large shareholder and director of the Bank in Boston, and had had his ex- ecutive ability recognized in a Goethals to Government The defendants include F. S. Mose- ley & Co., Kidder, Peabody & Co.; Robert F. Herrick, counse] for the | |First National Bank of Boston; Dan- ‘fel G. Wing, president of the First National, and the Chase National Bank of New York: The Chase tional, being out of the jurisdiction | | | | , names of St. Merchants’ National: ,..,.,, | list. call | | ' reality represented the Better Busi- Na- ' of the court, has not been served and | is not materially concerned in the suit. Other defendants are Frede?- ick S. Moseley, Neil Rantoul, Stephen U. R. Crossby, Ben Moseley, Sewell H. Fessenden, Louis B. Wellington, Herbert F. Boynton, Charles Auchin- | closs, William 8. Clough, Frank G. Webster, William Endicott, Albert S. West, Robert Winsor, Wiliam L. | postal i ‘sents 91 i ; | two Benedict, Charlé8 S. Sargeant Jr. and | Frank W. Remick. All are connected with the institutions named above as | active defendants. Their defense is a general denial of the charge of conspiracy and a plea that Willett legally signed re- jeases freeing them from obligation to him in managing and taking over his properties. Complicated Financial Snarl. In this complicated financial snarl] the two important concerns are the American Felt Co. and the Daniel Green Felt Shoe Co., which were owned by Willett, Sears & Co., which Willett was controlling part- ner. The subsidiary companies, which Willett says had great poten- tial value as auxiliaries, were chiefly textile and textile machinery plants. The two felt companies, according to the plaintiff, earned an average profit of $500,000 a year in the 10 years preceding 1918, and in 1916, 1917 and 1918 earned more than $1,- 000,000 a year. In 1918, however, Willett suddenly found himself ‘in need of $3,000,000 credit to carry on his business and complete con- tracts which he asserts would have been profitable. His situation was similar to that of many other manu- facturers at that time. He already owed various banks, chiefly regular commercial loans for The 12,000 National Bank of New York. Chase loan was secured by common American elt Co. a Souazht $3,000,000 Loan. In July, 1918, Willett asked S. H. of the Moseley firm to $3,000,000 loan for him. Fessenden had acted as broker or Fessenden, the complaint con- quintillion total. Centineed on Page 3, Colume 6 of | ‘and -opes were used. There were 13 one- Firm to Ohe on ‘Sucker List.’ Pounds Sent by Stock-Selling One postal card of inquiry bring $30 worth of reading matter, if the card is sent to a certain stock- which has many selling concern Louisans on its ‘‘sucker The Better Business Bureau has prepared a circular through the maj! from this one concern, following one postal-card inquiry, sent by a per- son whose name may have sounded like a good “prospect,”” but who in matter received ness Bureau. The pile of resulting correspond- ence, received by the signer of the card inquiry within a year, weighs nearly 11 pounds, and repre- mailings. Including outer inclosed envelopes, 125 envel- will | which bears a | _phetograph of the pile of advertising | page letters, 20 of two pages, six aa three pages, and two of four pages, 79 multigraphed pages in all. Fifty-| newspapers, or advertising | sheets in newspaper form, were sent. Thirty-nine pieces of prospectus ma- terial were sent, and 34 return post cards were furnished. Also, 72 sub- scription blanks were sent. The postage expended on this one supposed “‘prospect” came to $1.89, and the cost of the printed and multigraphed matter sent was estimated at $29.26. These estimates do not include the clerical labor of mailing the matter. “Oil” is the conspicuous word ap- pearing on the matter shown in the photograph. “Through one means or another,” the Better Business Bureau says, “we are on the sucker list of most of the etock-selling propositions being offered to the people of St. Louis.” “You. too, are probably on some- body’s sucker list. Sometime, some- where, you answered the advertise- ment of one of these pirates of! finance. Once on the list, forever on the list. Thev buy and sell your name like merchandise; they have you classified as an ‘easy’ sucker. ce ‘hard-headed’ sucker, or some other | kind of a sucker. They make a) notation beside your name that you are liable to fall for a $1, $10 or 4 $100 scheme. They know what you ‘fell for’ before and just about what you will fall for again.” —— Coolidge Western Campaign Ce Opened. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—Although the Republican National Cammittee wtil not formally decide on 4 convention city until next month, tentative hotel reservations for Coolidge headquar- ters and for Johnson headquarters already have been made and a mid- Western Coolidge headquarters was opened today by friends of the Pres- ident at the same hotel. The mid- Western Coolidge headquarters will be in charge of Dr. R. H. Tayler, who. with George W. Dixon, and others recently formed the Coolidge- | ‘ for-President Club here. ‘ac ~ —CPAPPPEAP Ada to Hospital. “Why, I'm going insane!” Dr. Carl J. Schmidt suddenly cried as he ways treating a woman patient in his of-' fice at St. Jacob, Ill, 28 miles east of | St. Louis, yesterday. He waved his hands wildly. crazy right now!” he cried. Today Dr. Schmidt, who has be a physician and surgeon in St. Jaz! for 25 years, having considerable lo cal reputation for his ability i: handling growths on the brain and similar afflictions, is a patient in the Illinois State Hospital for the Insan-’ at Alton. The patient he was treating, Mra Edward Schoreack, had run from | his office at the first outcry and summoned aid. The physician's trouble was diag- nosed at the hospital as severe nerv- ous breakdown. He had been suf fering from nervous headaches for some time. Dr. Schmidt is 51 years old, rmarried and has eight children. BAREFOOT DANCERS IN CHURCH Rector Reads Libretto and Stereop- ticon Views Are Shown. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—Barefoot dancers, colored lights and stereop- ticon views of sculptural master- pieces were introduced to the old church of St. Mark's in the Bowery yesterday when the rector, Dr.. Wil- liam Norman Guthrie, conducted an ‘experiment toward a rhythmic eculptory oratory’’—a tableau de- eigned to symbolize the progress of th- human soul. Dr. Guthrie read a libretto to the “Tn is as the dancing of five girls and the showing of pictures bathed in lights | of changing colors were used to in- terpret them. ‘*Fold Away Your: Foolish Fears’? } Suppose you do have find another position. It might be the best ; - OOOO O—L LO to that could nae pen to you. It probably will be if you have ability, vision and de- termination. Put what you have to offer into writing. Then put it ur to the thousands upon thou- sands of readers of the Post- Dispatch. It is not hard such an audience. to talk to most suc- ms have “a start Post-Dispatch Some of St. Louts’ cessful business gotten their through a Want Ad And these same men never forget this channel when they can offer a chance to someone else. Get yous afi a 4 print. You can ve it with . Your Druggqist or The Post - Dispatch Twelfth Bled. and Oltee &t. z Killed by Autos. A monument, bearing the inscrip- ton “In Memory of Child Life Sac- the Altar of Haste and hecklessness,’’ was dedicated to the 32 children who have died in St Tecuis this year in motor vehicle ac- ‘idents, in an impressive ceremony n Twelfth boulevard, between Olive ._pd Locust streets, at noon today as “rt of the Safety week program. The solemn requiem airs of a fu- eral dirge began the ceremonies, vhile more than 300 persons stood vith bared heads. The benediction 'y Monsignor Tannrath followed. speakérs then urged carefulness by 3t. Louis drivers, parents and pedes- trians. Small children dropped flowers about the base of the mon- ument. Again the audience stood with heads uncovered as the cere- monies came to an end with a fu- neral dirge. During the ceremonies, the AC-1, large dirigible from Scott Fiejd, cir- cled the epot, dropping “safety” lit- erature. A grimmer reminder of the deadly results of carelessness was a large speedometer, near Twelfth boulevard and Locust street, its fig- ures showing, not speed, but deaths in the city. One fatality was al- ready up for Safety week, “Every Child Has Right to Live.” “Every child has the right to live,” Rabbi Samvel Thurman, the first speaker, declared. “If not ths right to play in the streets, they at least have the right to crogs them safely. It is up to their elders to guard them. This monument out against the negligence of the people, against the cheap regard in which life is held.” He urged that all individuals assume a personal obligation to cuard and warn against earelessness at all times. “If every motorist each morning would offer up, in all sincerity, this prayer, “O, Lord, help me this day to love my neighbor as myself,” there would be far fewer actidents, the Rev. George A. Campbell, preaident of the Church Federation, asserted A great responsibility lies upon the individual, he said, for no street or turn ip the city can be “fool proof.” Hooch and Gasoline.” “Hooch and gasoline don't mix,” Mayor Kiel warned in an address. ‘Many an accident is caused by the mental condition of the driver. Care- ful driving should begin even before the machine is entered.” He praised the work of the Safety Council and hoped the curtailment of accidents in the future would give St. Loules one of the best records among the larger cities. Herman Spoehrer, chairman of the council's Safety week who presided, said that within the last three years the death rate here from moter. vehicle accidents had been reduced from 37 per 10,000 cars to 14 for each 10,000 machines. “We are not cencerned with statistics, however, but with the saving of hu- man life.” he asserted. The monument, with tte broken column to denote lives destroyed be- fore maturity, will remain in place /rificed on ate.) 7 7 ‘ the early afternoon. Protest | , re. The understanding is that a agreement called for sending to Ger- many of a protest against the lack of facilities she was furnishing for the work of the military control mis- sion, but without mention of what action the allies might taken in case Cermany failed to give the assurance of protection for the sion. The sense of the note proposed the Council of Ambassadors to sent to Germany was said to be a mapd that Germany provide tion for the interallied military coms trol mission wherever the Reich — control. The French are understood te have made reservations on the ques. tion of the penalties, so that if #& should prove necessary they be free to take separate action they so decided. The French Cabinet, catied consider the agreement the Council of Ambassadora, a communique to the effect “The Cabinet unanimously the attitude taken by M. in the negotiations.” (Premier Poincare hitherto indicated that France would penalties on Germany even if | Britain and France ate not Decision. a etaheciian The feeling In some allied ters was that no entirely tory text for the note to had been adopted, the reached being conefdered as a shift to prevent the the entente and giving the cries+more time to find a solution. The impression in allied po circles js that the entente is for the moment, but still is in as carious situation, at the mercy the first incident in Germany tile to the mission France, it is belleved, will not tate to take action in such « cverriding all allied objections. sequently it is feared that the ocal situation of the allies has teen definitely remedied and the crisis which might lead oe break has only been postponed. The result is regarded as « matic success for Great Britain, with such atrings to tt that i: i iH )